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I count dead plants. I'm fond of gin. She/her.

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

08.11.2025 15:24 👍 1577 🔁 556 💬 32 📌 113

"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."

07.11.2025 20:57 👍 541 🔁 168 💬 8 📌 8

I went to watch the video and this is actually really terrible and deeply disrespectful to his fellow #StarTrek franchise stars, whose likenesses are used in the video without their permission — and it really makes Jeri Ryan seem like she’s just titty

Gross gross gross

14.09.2025 23:35 👍 103 🔁 16 💬 10 📌 0

Uuuuuuuuuuuuurghhhh.

15.09.2025 00:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sometimes you need a local copy editor lads

14.09.2025 22:36 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

As someone who married into Boston rather than being born here, it's arguably problematic the degree to which I think the Yankees suck.

13.09.2025 23:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just showed it to my eight year old and he yelled "It's chicken jockey, mom!" like apparently that's a thing I should know.

Youth.

18.08.2025 00:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Makes me laugh every single time.

10.07.2025 19:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Should probably clean up my lecture notes before my defense.

25.06.2025 13:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've had some hemorrhoids in my time but they've a. Never had a face and b. I've never resorted to removal by sword.

16.06.2025 21:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adult groundhog and five babies in grass next to a shed

Adult groundhog and five babies in grass next to a shed

Our backyard groundhog has brought out this year's pups! Five wee baby hoggles!! 🥰🥰🥰

29.05.2025 16:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The problem with pre-ordering books is that when you do you don't realize you'll be a few days out from submitting your thesis when it automatically downloads to your device. Damn you, @kjcharleswriter.com! I need to write, not read 😭. Ah well, who needs a PhD, really?

29.05.2025 13:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

13 runs in a single inning seems like a bad idea for the Sox in game one of a double, but on the other hand - sure is fun to watch.

23.05.2025 20:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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America’s heritage is in a state of crisis. Along w/ DOGE-ing NPS, IMLS & the NEH, Trump is withholding already appropriated 2025 historic preservation funds & for 2026 wants to outright eliminate all fed funding for tribal, state, local & rural preservation & saving treasures of American history. 😡

08.05.2025 13:47 👍 12 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
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Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

01.05.2025 10:17 👍 790 🔁 536 💬 7 📌 62
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Justice for Rümeysa Öztürk Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,

Our union sister, Rümeysa Öztürk, has been detained by ICE for exercising her right to free speech. Please consider contributing to or sharing this fundraiser organized by Rümeysa's immigration court legal team:

16.04.2025 19:12 👍 401 🔁 149 💬 4 📌 7

God fucking dammit

07.04.2025 22:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I didn't steal your meme meme.

I didn't steal your meme meme.

07.04.2025 19:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Quoo le fuck. Shame is, I guess, passé?

07.04.2025 19:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Huh. Finn is very into this song from hearing it on the radio, so I heard it a LOT, but that is not the picture of the dude I had in my head.

07.04.2025 03:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Your child is more likely to die from measles than get beat by one of their trans peers in an athletic competition, and I wish our government's actions would reflect that.

06.04.2025 17:18 👍 5334 🔁 1021 💬 22 📌 27

Easier to "walk it off" when it's someone else's, to be fair.

06.04.2025 14:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My kid's sign at the Providence Hands Off today. The Greenland thing has REALLY riled him up.

05.04.2025 22:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ok that’s enough news time to drink

05.04.2025 00:09 👍 999 🔁 24 💬 48 📌 9

Checking if any new postdocs/Archie jobs in the UK/Ireland have been posted every hour or so? Me? Oh, yep, me.

31.03.2025 16:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New nightmare unlocked.

Will start using mace in the "anti-monster spray".

27.03.2025 16:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a woman is asking another woman why are you so obsessed with me ? ALT: a woman is asking another woman why are you so obsessed with me ?
21.03.2025 00:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Found them in a pictures>camera roll folder!

17.03.2025 14:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0